Ernest Hartley Coleridge:

An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center

Creator:

Coleridge, Ernest Hartley,
1846-1920

Title:

Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Collection

Dates:

1745-1968 (bulk 1860-1910)

Abstract:

Includes manuscripts and letters
written and received by the English poet and scholar Ernest Hartley Coleridge, who
was the son of Derwent Coleridge and the grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In
addition to members of the Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and related families,
correspondents include Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Samuel Butler, James Dykes
Campbell, Richard Garnett, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry James, Andrew Lang, James
Russell Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and many
others.

Access:

Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

On the proposal to receive the Duke of Albany, handwritten
manuscript with revisions, 4 pages, 27 March 1882.

Letters from John Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey with a
prefatory essay on John Taylor Coleridge and the Quarterly Review by E.
H. Coleridge, preface, signed handwritten manuscript, 20 pages,
July-August 1891.

Sermons, handwritten manuscript written in partially disbound
notebook, 37 pages, 1887, most undated; written in back of notebook are
essays entitled What were the ethical notions of Herodotus and the Greek
tragedians?; How far was the Peloponnesian war a war of races, how far
of opinion?; The relation of Plato to the eristies; On the ethical
standard, handwritten manuscript, 17 pages, undated.

ALS, ALI to John Lane the Bodley Head (Mr. Lane), 7 May 1906,
undated.

ALS / draft to Lincoln's Inn, Treasurers and Masters of the
Bench, 3 August 1894; application for the position of Librarian;
includes testimonial letters from Henry C. Lopes, Baron C. E. Pollock,
T. R. Buchanan, Richard Garnett, J. Dykes Campbell, Alfred C. King, and
Russell of Killowen; included are two printed copies of the application
and testimonials.

ALS to Lloyd-Ingström, C., 28 January 1900; written on verso:
reply from Lloyd-Ingström, 29 January 1900.

ALS to Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, undated.

4 ALS to Murray, John, Sir, 1898-1902, undated.

ALS to The Saturday Review, directed to the editor, 22 July
1900.

ALS to Shebbeare, Henry F., 5 December 1896.

ALS to The Spectator, directed to the editor, 17 April
1882.

ALS to Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 23 June 1902.

ALS to Trevenen, Emily, 22 February 1851.

ALS to Wentworth, Mrs., 15 November no year.

AL to Yarnall, Ellis, 28 June 1899.

Recipient:

Note: for Ray numbers cited below, see Ray, Charlotte Walters. A
Catalogue and Index of the Letters to Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Doctoral
dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1971.

Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Ernest
Hartley, 1885-1895; included is a copy of the 7 May 1885 letter and a
copy of E. H. Coleridge's reply; 27 April 1885 letter written and signed
by H. W. Primrose for Gladstone; Ray 636-637; 1246.

Patteson, Frances Sophia Coleridge, 1825-1913. 6 ALS to
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1885-1905, undated; 5 January 1905 letter and
6 leaves of notes about the book removed from Life and Correspondence of
John Duke, Lord Coleridge.

Royalty account-statement with Heinemann for The letters of
S. T. Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 15 May 1896;
included is a note about the royalty agreement, handwritten
manuscript, 1 page, undated.

Service of dedication of cross at Coffinswell, handwritten
manuscript in unknown hand, 5 pages; carbon typescript, 4 pages,
both undated.

Tickets of admission to the unveiling of a bust of S. T.
Coleridge in Westminster Abbey, 3 printed manuscripts, 1 page each,
all 7 May 1885; one addressed to E. H. Coleridge.

Recipient: the author's incoming
correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter;
and

Miscellaneous: all other manuscripts and
correspondence, arranged alphabetically by creator.

Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books,
and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom
Center collections for cataloging and storage.